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I just want Set 1 back...

Śhunpo·1/4/2020, 12:30:45 PM·3 votes·1,221 views

See, Set 2 is great and all but uuuhhh...it really does feel like you're not actually making a proper comp, it just feels jank and random. Like I get it, instead of stacking 1-4 different buffs you stack like 4-8+, but to me Wardens-Rangers doesn't even compare to Knights-Rangers in terms of it feeling like an actual comp (if that makes sense). A Blademaster comp now, better known as a "Blender" comp, is nowhere near comparable to Blademaster-Gunslingers in terms of overall feel, at least to me.

I don't know how to put it into words, it's just that I feel like comps in Set 2 just don't feel like actual comps, they feel like random mish-mash. It also doesn't help that a lot of comps are EXTREMELY reliant on 5 cost units, some even entirely based around them, and the fact that somehow, someway, they messed up the RNG system again with rolls. I can go like 8 rolls without a single unit I want to use, most of them being from a comp other people are already running, meaning if I try to transition it won't work out; so it's just baiting me.

Then there's the issue of item drops being so infrequent, and items completely defining most comps, such as Blender, Berserkers, Light, Poison...oh, actually every comp NEEDS items to do well. Set 1 alleviated this problem eventually when item drops were made fairly frequent, and when Hextech was introduced, which while broken, solved any potential item problems (at least partially).

Then there are cost issues for units. Why is Olaf 4 gold and not 5? Why is Nocturne 3 gold? Why is Yasuo 2 gold? Why is Neeko 2 gold? And the big one, why are 3-5 cost units so significant while 1-2 cost units are terrible? In regards to the last part, it's like we pulled a whole 360 since Set 1, where 1-2 cost units were quite good and anything above that was considered luxury. I don't remember a comp being absolutely defined by more expensive units, besides MAYBE rangers with Ashe and Kayle and I guess Imperials with Swain, and I guess Pantheon in the Knights-Dragon-Guardians comp.

tl;dr: Comps don't feel like comps this time around, RNG feels atrocious and the distribution of power to cost is skewed in a way that makes 3-5 cost units essential to win.

9 Comments

ThunderCraft1/4/2020, 8:53:18 PM3 votes

same, i hate set 2 with passion is the worse auto-battler ever.

Heroboy101/4/2020, 3:06:25 PM2 votes

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Why is Olaf 4 gold and not 5?

Did you play Olaf ? I played many times full build Olaf with many combinations and I couldn't get more than 3-th place. Usually 4-5th place.

No matter how OP Olaf seems to be, he dies quick once he is focused. He is focused because he is melee. He is not tank because he need Rageblade, BT to be good at something.

You definitely needs a second carry if you want more than 3-th place.

Actually Olaf is my last pick as ADC.

Pyrrhicblade1/6/2020, 1:37:06 AM2 votes

It is not that Set 1 was so good, it is that set 2 has been a colossal failure. Worst yet this is the longest patch cycle of TFTs life at the WORST point. I'm willing to give set 3 a go but this shit is bad. Step one is the 3 opening rounds need FIXED = outcome. The order and how/why you get them is ok to rng as is except after 3 rounds every player should have X gold equivalent in either units, raw gold, or items which I put at a 2 gold rate. Neeko's can be set at a 3 gold rate since you gotta rly sit on it for it to worth more than 3, and spatula in this current set is so OP it should be 5 gold worth.

Arammus1/4/2020, 1:00:42 PM1 votes

i want pbe tft back. even with unfair item rng where you could literally get no item all game long, it was more fun than what tft became 1 month after it hit the live server

Sukishoo1/6/2020, 1:40:32 AM1 votes

They said on stream that previous SETS would only ever come back as like a special week long event kind of thing. They want to continually move forward with each season (every 4 or so months) so you will always have to deal with new champions, new origins, new classes, new items, ect.